Profiles Kelli Walker and Simon Allen who operate 'Forage & Ferment' boutique fermentary in the rural town of Clevedon. Describes how they set up the business creating jars of kimchi and sauerkraut ...and using permaculture principles. Explains the process of fermenting and liaising with local growers. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Sustainability and food security are the major challenges faced by third world countries for the past several decades. Most of the third world countries are also facing problems of climate change, ...increasing population, overexploitation of natural resources and resource degradation associated with rapid economic growth. Among the scientific and policy circles there are controversies in using inorganic chemicals and biotechnology for sustaining the agricultural production. There is no critical comprehensive review on sustainability of alternative farming systems and their relative advantages over conventional, chemicalized and hi-tech agriculture for decision making at various levels. This review tries to fulfill the knowledge gap in this vital sector. The first part of the review discuss the current status of agroecosystems, with emphasis on their threats in terms of food security, long term sustainability, impacts on ecosystem services and climate change. We also evaluate the ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability of inorganic agriculture. This analysis points emerging issues such as environmental degradation, loss of ecosystem services, non-sustainability and threats to food security in the context of global population growth and climate change. Hence there is an urgent need for identifying potential alternative farming strategies to achieve long term sustainability and food security as indicated by several leading workers in the field. The next section traces the background and evolution of alternative farming systems with their scope and importance. Then we classified potential sustainable farming techniques practiced in various parts of the world. For that we review potentials, constraints, strategies and case studies for ten alternatives farming techniques and four innovative endogenous farming techniques from India. The alternative farming techniques that were field tested and perfected over several generations in the past portrayed the following advantages over chemical farming: (1) eco-friendly by protecting and revving life support systems and ecosystem services, (2) higher cost benefit ratio, benefiting the farmers as well as the consumers, (3) control and reduction of bioaccumulation and biomagnification, (4) reduction in air, water and soil pollution caused by various pesticides and other chemicals, (5) control of health hazards in humans and livestock, and (6) conservation and sustainable use of on-farm biodiversity, including traditional cultivated germplasm and natural resources in agrosystems.
Art and the Environmental Crisis Luke, Timothy W.
Art journal (New York. 1960),
07/1992, Letnik:
51, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
What is the role of art in today's ecological crisis? In many respects it is critical, because the arts have been one of the main engines driving the wasteful ways of modern capitalism. Every year ...brings a new set of artistically mediated expectations and aesthetically intensified consumer requirements-always predicated upon the waste of more scarce resources, the overconsumption of energy, and the misuse of productive talents.
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Permaculture House and Garden Collins, Pat
Soft Technology: Alternative Technology in Australia,
06/1992
40
Journal Article
Imagine a house, being warmed and cooled by nature, set in a lush and productive garden, in which people, plants and animals work together to provide an abundance of fresh, food, untainted by ...pesticides.
Kyocera's international headquarters in Japan is an example of energy-efficient excellence, no matter what the season.Anne Wallis Hyanieexplains how by prioritising environmental imperatives, this ...building is at the forefront of a green corporate revolution
Ecological agriculture Alexandra, Jason
New internationalist,
05/2000
323
Magazine Article
Jason Alexandra examines the growth of the permaculture movement.
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Multi-function chicken Johnston, Jeff
Natural life (Unionville. 1991),
05/1998
61
Magazine Article
Chickens eat bugs in all three stages adult, larval (caterpillar), and egg not to mention slugs. They also eat seeds, including weed seeds. Let your chickens loose in your garden in autumn after you ...ve harvested everything you don t want pecked to the ground. The chickens will gobble up every weed seed, pupa and slug they can find, cleaning up your garden for next spring. You can also let them out in early spring when weed seeds are starting to sprout and bugs are becoming active. Using them in the fall and spring should reduce your weeding and bug-hunting throughout the growing season. You can also use chickens to reduce fly populations that affect your cattle or dairy cows. If you pasture your herd using intensive rotational grazing, bring the birds in three to four days after the cows have been in each paddock. The chickens will tear apart the manure to reach fly eggs and pupae. In the process, they ll spread the manure around the field, which benefits from more even fertilization. Your cattle will have fewer flies and fly parasites bothering them, which will reduce their stress levels, reduce parasite treatment costs, and likely increase meat or milk production. If you raise your chickens more conventionally, using a permanent coop, consider attaching a greenhouse to it. A south-facing greenhouse will warm the coop during winter days, and the heat from the chickens will moderate the greenhouse temperature during the cold nights. Also, the carbon dioxide produced by the chickens will be used by the plants in the greenhouse, and insects will be eaten by the birds. Remember to use an air filter to reduce the feather dust in the air.
